ALTAF HUSSAIN VOWS TO TRANSFORM PAKISTAN INTO A TRUE WELFARE STATE
“Pakistan should not be ruled over by the military or judiciary but the people – Military Generals violated the constitution, broke Pakistan but they have never been tried for treason – Government of Pakistan should allow overseas Pakistanis to have their say through ballots in elections – Military should now stop humiliating tribal areas’ people especially women on pretext of search – Sindh has to be divided under 26 parallel – Mohajirs population has been cut to a peanut size but the true census would reveal the actual strength of Mohajirs”
LONDON. March 18, 2018: MQM Founder leader Mr. Altaf Hussain said that he wants to eliminate the repressive and exploitative feudal system from Pakistan and that he has never been against the state of Pakistan. The reality is that the progressive people of Pakistan are eager to have friendly ties with the neighbouring countries Afghanistan, Iran and India.
He said he has always wished and struggled for a liberal and democratic Pakistan where the judiciary should be free and working independently free from Pakistani military’s control and a military force that should be public-serving not authoritarian. MQM wants to transform Pakistan into a state where all institutions, military, judiciary and Parliament should work in strict accordance to the constitution.
He said his ideology could never be suppressed with state force. All the oppressed masses of Pakistan should get united under one banner of MQM recognise the common enemy and retrieve the rights.
He was addressing the 34th Foundation Day of MQM here in London, which was largely attended by people, intellects, writers, academicians and others from all sections of life.
Mr. Hussain said that his address to the participants of the 34th Foundation Day is also being watched by the military establishment and ISI at the GHQ and Aabpara respectively, which is a proof that despite restrictions on local media to cover him, military and ISI have failed. It is with the blessings of Allah and He alone can change the course.
He said that a war among the oppressed and the tyrant is not new and would continue as is happening today and the struggle for rights from FATA has now engulfed Balouchistan and their voices of concern are heard worldwide. Now the oppressed Sindhis should rise in light of teaching of late Sain G. M. Syed and commence their practical struggle for their rights as is he doing for the Mohajirs and others. The people of Punjab especially students should not listen to propaganda but the case is s simple that he only wants to see them free from shackles of the military and ISI. They are the corrupt military Generals who are responsible for country’s devastating situation. The military Generals are protecting and promoting the decayed feudal system as their existence lies in it. The people of Pakistan, Pashtuns, Sindhis, Punjabis, Balouchs, Pakhtoons, Kashmiris, Hazarwals, Gilgiti and Baltistani should recognise their first and common enemy, the military and feudal system. Today, the people of FATA are saying that it is Pakistan’s military behind every act of repression and evil. In past, the military establishment conspired against different communities to confront each other.
Pakistan’s former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, who is a member of feudal system advised his mother party, PMLN, not to confront the institutions and in fact he wanted to say that the PMLN should not challenge the tyranny of the military establishment and the faulty judiciary. Conversely, the ISI-paid TV anchorpersons are safeguarding their interests and the interests of the tyrant military and faulty judiciary.
MQM founder leader Mr. Hussain said that all should bear in mind that the military dictators who toppled democratic governments and suspended the constitution were all guilty of treason as suspending the constitution is an act of treason. However, not a single military General has so far been punished by the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Instead, the anti-terrorist court directed the government to approach the Interpol for bringing General (retired) Pervez Musharraf back as the later has been implicated in treason case. Musharraf should also review as why he alone has been charged with treason while he was in plane and other military Generals had initiated the coup d’état but the court has not included those.
He said that ironically the Chief Justice of Pakistan Mr. Saquib Nisar is very active on taking suo motu notices on prices of milk and drugs but he is silent over genocide of Mohajirs, Balouchs and Pashtuns. It has been two months of cold blooded assassination of Prof. Dr Hassan Zafar Arif and Naqeebullah Mehsood in custody but the law enforcement authorities and the SC have not moved an inch for dispensing justices to the aggrieved families. The killer Police SSP Rao Anwar is under the shelter of the military establishment and ISI and if the CJP is interested in dispensing justices, he should summon COAS, ISI DG and other military heads and give them a three day deadline for the production of Anwar and rest assured the killer cop would be available.
He said that they were the military establishment and the ISI that created rift among different ethnic communities and the ethnic riots were thus resulted at the behest of them. The ethnic folks of Pakistan should recognise the perpetrators or else the ethnic violence would never end in Pakistan. In ethnic violence, numerous Mohajirs were slain. However, he said he still looks forward and seeks Allah’s refuge and hope that He would pardon the assassins of Mohajirs. It is now high time for unity against common enemy and retrieval of rights.
He said that the SC in Pakistan is acting as on payroll of the military establishment. The SC judges are only after Nawaz Sharif but they are turning blind eyes to Imran Khan as the SC had recently declared him as most pious man while the fact is that he fathered an illegitimate daughter in United States and his crime had been proven in a court of United States but still he is considered as pious man by the SC, which is so disappointing. On the other, Nawaz Sharif is paying the price of what he had done to Mohajirs in past.
Mr. Hussain said that the military establishment has imposed ban on him in Pakistan and under that ban, the media has been restricted to publish his statements and pictures and the electronic media is restricted to telecast his talks and speeches. The military establishment has declared him as traitor while the fact is that he neither conspired against Pakistan nor broke it into two pieces. In fact, they are the military Generals who broke Pakistan into two in 1971 and thus Bangladesh was created. They betrayed Pakistan and are traitors but they are free.
He said that, “He is against all kinds of terrorism and extremism because those who are extremists and terrorists are on the sides of the evil.” “They are the forces of evil on Earth.” Therefore, everybody should seek Allah’s refuge from military and judiciary as these are the real goons.
He invited all ethnic folks of Pakistan to come forward and united for the retrieval of the suppressed rights and transform Pakistan into a state where the democracy should be the only option in letter and spirit. The military and judiciary should be working for the service of the people of Pakistan, the real owners of the country.
While referring to COAS regarding his statement about him, he said General Bajwah would also become a past soon but the ideology of Altaf Hussain would last by the grace of the almighty Lord Allah.
Slamming PPP’s Asif Ali Zardari on injustices done to the urban areas where Mohajirs are in dominance, he said that he and his provincial government have created delimitations in favour of rural Sindh. “PPP should now keep in mind that Sindh has to be divided under 26 parallel formulas.” “People of urban Sindh (Mohajirs) have been fed up with PPP’s crooked measures and discrimination.”
He said that a fair consensus would reveal the exact population of Mohajirs in Sindh in particular as the Mohajir numbers have exceeded to 70 million.
He asked the COAS to stop humiliating women of tribal areas on the pretext of search for safety.
He demanded the government of Pakistan to allow the overseas Pakistanis to have their say through ballot in elections.
In the conclusion, MQM founder leader Mr. Hussain thanked the participants. He also felicitated Mohajirs in Karachi, Hyderabad, Mirpur Khas, Sukkur, Nawab Shah, Sangarh, Tando Allah Yar, Tando Muhammad Jam and other citifies and towns of Sindh for commemorating the 34th Foundation Day at homes.
